EOCT Study Guide
SSUSH1: Colonization
1. How was the Virginia Colony established? What type of colony was it?
2. What role did tobacco play in the success of Jamestown, VA?
3. Describe the relationship that Jamestown had with natives such as Powhatan.
4. House of Burgesses:
5. What is Bacon’s Rebellion and what did it show about Jamestown?
6. Describe the following colonial regions:
a. New England
b. Middle
c. Southern
7. What was King Phillip’s War?
8. What are the differences between Puritans and Quakers?
9. Why was Pennsylvania established?
10. What was the Salem Witch Trials, and what did it indicate?
11. Why did Massachusetts lose its charter? What is the Dominion of New England?
12. Why did the French settle Quebec (why were they in North America)?
SSUSH2: English Colonies
13. Mercantilism:
14. Triangle Trade:
15. Describe the Middle Passage.
16. What is Enlightenment and why is Ben Franklin and example?
17. What is the Great Awakening?
SSUSH3: Leading to Revolution
18. Why was the French and Indian War fought?
19. What did the Treaty of Paris 1763 do or call for?
20. Proclamation of 1763: Why did the King create it?
21. Stamp Act:
22. Intolerable / Coercive Acts: Why were they issued as well?
23. Sons and Daughters of Liberty:
24. What was the role of Committee of Correspondence?
25. What is the importance of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense?
SSUSH4: Revolution
26. Declaration of Independence:
a. What’s in it?
b. What is it for?
c. By who?
d. Why?
27. What is the importance of French alliance in the Revolution? What battle causes the French to enter the war?
28. Marquis de Lafayette:
29. What is the significance of the battle of Trenton?
30. Describe George Washington as a military leader and President.
31. Valley Forge:
32. Yorktown:
33. What does the Treaty of Paris 1783 do and call for?
SSUSH5: Constitution / New Nation
34. What are the Articles of Confederation and why are they weak?
35. Describe the importance of Daniel Shay’s Rebellion.
36. Beliefs of the following:
a. Anti-Federalist:
b. Federalist:
37. Checks and balances:
38. Separation of powers:
39. Describe the roles of James Madison and Alexander Hamilton in creating the constitution.
40. New Jersey Plan:
41. Virginia Plan:
42. Great Compromise:
43. 3/5 Compromise:
44. Describe the importance of George Washington’s Presidency.
45. Whiskey Rebellion:
46. What was Alexander Hamilton’s economic plan?
47. What was Washington’s foreign policy? (French Revolution)
48. What were the 1st 2 Political Parties?
SSUSH6: Jefferson / New Nation
49. NW Ordinance:
50. How does the US gain the Louisiana Purchase?
51. How does the LA Purchase go against Jefferson’s “limited” government ideals?
52. What were the major reasons for the War of 1812?
53. What role does the Erie Canal play in the development of New York City in become the financial center of the US?
54. What is the significance of the Monroe Doctrine?
SSUSH7: Nationalism – Pre Civil War
55. What role does Eli Whitney’s cotton gin play in Industrial Revolution?
56. Manifest Destiny:
57. Movements:
a. temperance:
b. abolition:
c. public schools:
58. Seneca Falls Convention and the role of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
59. What role does Andrew Jackson play in the War of 1812?
60. Define Jacksonian Democracy:
61. Indian Removal Act:
SSUSH8: Leading to Civil War
62. Nat Turners’ Rebellion:
63. Abolitionists:
a. William Lloyd Garrison:
b. Frederick Douglass:
c. Grimke sisters:
64. Missouri Compromise:
65. What is the major significance of the Nullification Crisis? What role does Andrew Jackson play in it?
66. Why did the US go to war with Mexico?
67. Wilmot Proviso:
68. What is the Compromise of 1850 and how does it violate the Missouri Compromise (1820)?
SSUSH9: Civil War
69. Kansas-Nebraska Act:
70. Popular sovereignty:
71. Importance of the Dred Scott Case (Sanford vs. Scott / Dred Scott Decision)
72. What are some of Lincoln’s attempts to save the Union?
73. Why was the Gettysburg Address so important and impactful? Significance (what did it do?)
74. Why does Lincoln suspend habeas corpus?
75. Describe the importance of each person:
a. Ulysses S. Grant:
b. Robert E. Lee:
c. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson:
d. William T. Sherman:
e. Jefferson Davis:
76. Summarize each battle: (importance each play)
a. Ft. Sumter:
b. Antietam:
c. Vicksburg:
d. Gettysburg:
e. Atlanta:
77. Emancipation Proclamation:
78. What advantages and disadvantages did the North and South have over each other?
SSUSH10: Reconstruction
79. Define the following Reconstruction Plans
a. Presidential Plan (Johnson)
b. 10% Plan (Lincoln)
c. Congressional Plan (Radical Republicans)
80. Role of the Freedmen’s Bureau (include education and establishment of Morehouse College)
81. Amendments:
a. 13th:
b. 14th:
c. 15th:
82. Define Black Codes:
83. What is the KKK (stand for) what was their purpose?
84. Explain the impeachment process of President Andrew Johnson.
85. How did the presidential election of 1876 mark the end of Reconstruction?
SSUSH11: Industry/expansion
86. What role does the rail road play in westward expansion?
87. What is the importance of the Transcontinental Rail Road? Who builds it?
88. What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
89. Define Robber Barron:
90. What industry goes with the following person?
a. Andrew Carnegie:
b. John D. Rockefeller:
c. JP Morgan
91. What is a “trust”?
92. Describe the inventions of Thomas Edison.
SSUSH12: Immigration
93. Where is the major entry point for European immigrants?
94. Where is the major entry point for Asian immigrants?
95. What is the AFL? And who is Samuel Gompers?
96. How does western growth impact Native Americans?
97. What occurred at Wounded Knee?
98. Who is Sitting Bull?
99. What occurred at Little Big Horn and what role does Gen. Custer play?
100. Describe the 1894 Pullman Strike (how is it an example of industrial / worker unrest?)
SSUSH13: Progressives
101. Describe the impact of Upton Sinclair’s book The Jungle.
102. Describe Jane Addams and the Hull House.
103. What is the significance of Plessy vs. Ferguson?
104. What is the purpose of the NAACP?
105. Who is Ida Tarbell, and how does is this an example of muckrakers?
106. Define the following progressive reforms:
a. initiative:
b. recall:
c. referendum:
d. direct election of senators:
e. labor laws:
107. What conservation efforts did Theodore Roosevelt take?
SSUSH14: Imperialism
108. Describe the Spanish-American War in Cuba? Philippines?
109. What is the Roosevelt Corollary? How does it reflect the Monroe Doctrine?
110. What is the significance of the Panama Canal?
SSUSH15: World War I
111. What role did the US play in WWI before entering the war?
112. Great Migration:
113. Espionage Act:
114. What is the red scare and what role does Eugene Debs play in it?
115. In President Wilson’s 14 points, what did he mean by “peace without victory”?
116. What is the League of Nations, why did it fail, and why did the US not join?
117. What did the Treaty of Versailles call for?
118. 18th Amendment:
119. 19th Amendment:
SSUSH16: 1920’s
120. What is mass production and what role does Henry Ford play in it?
121. What impact does mass media have? (radio, movies etc.)
122. Describe the following forms of cultural expression:
a. Louis Armstrong:
b. origins of jazz:
c. Langston Hughes:
d. Harlem Renaissance:
e. Irving Berlin:
f. Tin Pan Alley:
SSUSH17: Great Depression
123. TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority), what is it and its purpose?
124. What was the purpose in the Wagner Act?
125. SSA (Social Security Act) what is its purpose? What does it do?
126. Describe the role of Eleanor Roosevelt.
127. Who is Huey Long?
128. What does “court packing” mean?
129. What is the Neutrality Act?
SSUSH19: World War II
130. What was A. Phillip Randolph marching on Washington, D.C. for?
131. Explain the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
132. What was done to Japanese-Americans in response to the Pearl Harbor attack?
133. War mobilization:
134. Who/what is “Rosie the Riveter”? What did she come to symbolize?
135. Who and what was the Manhattan Project , and what was all involved?
136. D-Day:
137. Describe the war in the Pacific.
SSUSH20: Cold War
138. Marshall Plan:
139. Truman Doctrine:
140. Containment Policy:
141. What impact did a new communist regime in China have in the United States?
142. Describe the 2nd Red Scare.
143. What role does Joseph McCarthy play in the 2nd Red Scare?
144. Bay of Pigs:
145. Cuban Missile Crisis:
146. What leads to the Vietnam War/Conflict?
147. Describe the events of the Tet Offensive.
SSUSH21: US Development
148. What is the “baby boom”?
149. What impact does TV have on the US during the 1960’s?
150. Describe the Kennedy Administration.
151. Describe the space race (be sure to include sputnik and the creation of NASA)
152. Why is the person computer so important?
SSUSH22: Civil Rights Movement
153. What attempts did President Truman to integrate the military?
152. What role does Jackie Robinson play in Civil Rights and equality?
153. Explain Brown vs. Board of Education.
154. Civil Rights Act of 1964:
155. Voting rights Act of 1965:
SSUSH23: 1960’s
156. What was the Warren Court?
157. What are Miranda Rights?
158. What happened in the JFK assassination?
159. What civil rights legislation did Kennedy bring about?
SSUSH24: 1960’s-70’s
160. Describe these Civil Rights groups:
a. SNCC:
b. SCLC:
c. NOW (women’s rights):
161. Describe the Vietnam Anti-War movement.
162. Who is Cesar Chavez, and what role does he play in the United Farm Worker’s movement?
163. Who is Rachel Carson and the EPA?
164. Describe these two people in how they fit into the Conservative Movement
a. Barry Goldwater:
b. Richard M. Nixon:
SSUSH25: Modern America
165. What was significant about President Nixon going to China?
166. Describe the events of the White Water scandal.
167. Roe vs. Wade (1973):
168. Bakke Decision:
169. Describe the following events of the Carter Administration:
a. Camp David Accords:
b. 1979 Iranian Revolution:
c. Iranian Hostage Crisis:
170. What is Reagonomics?
171. What is the Iranian-contra scandal:
172. NAFTA:
173. What was the Clinton Impeachment process?
174. Describe the 2000 Presidential Election.
174. What was the President Bush Response to the 9/11 attacks?
175. What antiterrorism actions have the US taken in Afghanistan and Iraq?